Opinion: India has made its point in Pakistan. Time to let the diplomats do the hard talk.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended the Gandhi Peace Prize award ceremony in New Delhi on Tuesday, amid a rising military escalation with Pakistan. By Barkha Dutt Barkha Dutt Email Bio Follow February 27 at 5:12 PM All it took was 48 hours to change the decades-old security doctrine between India and Pakistan.
Modi is well aware that airstrikes do little or nothing to dismantle the Pakistani deep state’s architecture in which Islamist terrorist groups are groomed as assets against India. Unlike their parents, a younger generation of Indians do not carry any sentimental baggage from the 1947 partition that divided us from Pakistan. This generation is restless, impatient and exasperated by Pakistan’s inaction and India’s seeming unwillingness to address the threats head-on.
India carefully described the air attack in Pakistan as “nonmilitary" and"preemptive," in other words, aimed at neither Pakistan’s military nor its civilian population. It appears as if President Trump had a forewarning when he said last week that India was “looking at something very strong.” Sure enough, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo endorsed the Indian strikes as a “counter-terrorism” measure.
On social media, some horrific videos of an injured Varthaman were circulated, in what the Indian foreign ministry called a “vulgar display” in violation of the Geneva Conventions. And suddenly, the conversation at least momentarily shifted from how to bring the Jaish-e-Muhammad and Azhar to justice to how to bring Varthaman home.
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